Enhancements to stumpwimple's biplane

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At the scale and resolution I was printing, the struts and part of the vertical stabilizer dropped out. My eight-year-old son was satisfied with the result, but I wanted to improve it... . I pulled stumpwimple's nice biplane STL into OpenSCAD and imposed some changes on top of it: a simplified strut configuration for printing at lower resolution, and I also added landing gear. Ben, I hope you don't mind! It looks as though you had a specific prototype in mind, and I've mundged a couple of different "bipes" together in my remix. At full scale with a .5 extruder it's still on the very edge of resolution for my hardware; scaling up by at least 10% would probably help. NOTE TO READERS: If you want to run this thing, you'll need to grab stumpwimple's STL (http://www.thingiverse.com/download:445546) and put it in the same directory as my SCAD: I don't think it's ethical to push another person's code into my post! Instructions Again, if you're working from the SCAD file, you need to put Ben's STL in the same folder or you'll get a bunch of irrelevant objects upon rendering. Grab http://www.thingiverse.com/download:445546 Also, scaling it up by a bit may help... my print was at the ragged edge of resolution for the current configuration of my gear -- got the wing struts but not the fuselage struts.